[PLUG] Browsers timing out?

[Guy Letourneau]

For those not in the know, I am a Linux USER, and that's all I want to be.

I am running Ubuntu ( version 'something' later than 10.0x - I cannot 
find an 'ABOUT' or information tab to tell me what version this is. Yes, 
I looked.) I am running Gnome.

Anyways, as of a couple days ago, my browsers have gotten really slow, 
and they 'timeout' more and more, and pretthy much always for now. I can 
open a command line and ping places I want to view, and I get 50ms ~ 
300ms depending on where.

I am trying Firefox, epiphany, and I just tried adding SeaMonkey.
Still timing out.

Windows boxes on my network serve pages normally.

Can I set the 'time' somewhere to like 5 minutes, so I acn request a 
page, do a hosework chore, and then return to the computer once the page 
finally loads. (Yes, I am patient enough to wait minutes for pages; but 
I *do* eventually want to SEE them...)

Any other hints, perhaps?

- GLL